England's traditional crafts such as clog makers, basket weavers and wood turners are in danger of disappearing, according to the few people still practising them.

Alexandra of Denmark was the bride of the Prince of Wales, and a 19th Century fashion icon. The clothes she wore were copied, the chokers she wore to conceal a scar on her neck were copied, and when a bout of rheumatic fever left her with a pronounced limp that was copied, too.

An Israeli Bedouin father and a Palestinian family were among those killed as the casualty toll from Israel's ground campaign and rocket attacks from Gaza continue to rise as it expands its ground offensive, while pro-Palestinian protesters in France have clashed with police at a rally against Israel's action in Gaza. Thousands took part in the protest in Paris, despite it being banned. Some threw stones and bottles at riot police, who responded with tear gas. The ban was imposed after protesters attempted to storm two synagogues at a similar protest last week. (Read more)

The painful practice of binding the feet of girls in China may have been outlawed in 1911, but for some girls the ancient tradition continued illegally until the 1949 Communist revolution. Elsewhere on the plight of women, thousands of people have held a protest in India over a police investigation into the rape of a six-year-old girl by two staff members at a prominent school, which has been accused of refusing to take responsibility for the crime. Anger is growing in India over its latest rape case, raising more questions about the safety of India's schoolchildren and sexual violence against girls and women.

Experiments have found that whether or not you can register a colour depends on whether or not you have a name for it in your language. You can see the colour, it just doesn't register in your mind, while the word "robot" was originally another word for "slave". It was invented in 1921 by Czech playwright Karel Capek, who wrote a play featuring artificial people built for the purpose of being slaves. He named these beings "robots" after the Czech word "robota," which means "forced labour".